Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 523
After bidding farewell to Wang Yan, Wang Xiaolie led the army back.Not far away, Wang Ruohai on the side couldn't help asking: "Jieshuai, are we going back to Xiangyang just like this? Are you really handing over Junzhou's emergency to Wang Yan? Including the military rations we worked so hard to transport here?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "What do you want? For us, it's not cost-effective to transport the rations brought in and then return them."

Wang Ruohai froze for a moment.After a while, he sighed and said: "Jie Shuai has a generous personality, which I have never seen before. As the saying goes, good people are rewarded with good rewards. I hope that one day, God will reward you with sincerity."

Wang Xiaolie said: "If you do good deeds, you shouldn't ask for any good rewards. Just do it if you need to do it. Thinking about the benefits in everything is like burning incense in a temple and spending a few pennies for incense and fire. Gong Bodhisattva will bless this , bless that, as if a bodhisattva is worth a few pennies. When we do things, we should only be ashamed of our hearts, and don't think too much about other things."

Wang Ruohai nodded, it's not easy to say anymore.

Thousands of stones of grain and grass are of no use to the current Wang Xiaolie.But for Wang Yan, if it can solve his big problem right now, why doesn't Wang Xiaolie act as a favor?It's exhausting to worry about everything.

Wang Xiaolie did not gain nothing in this attack on Junzhou.In addition to training the army, there are also captured Li Zhong's troops.Li Zhong's combatable soldiers are selected from the coerced people, and more than half of them can be incorporated into the army.Those who cannot join the army are also urgently needed population.

After several years of development, Dengzhou and Tangzhou are still sparsely populated.Arranging these people to go there and reclaim the idle fields will be a great help to me.In this age, population is wealth.

In the normal years of the Song Dynasty, rural customers accounted for more than [-]%, first- and second-class households accounted for less than [-]%, and the rest were self-cultivating farmers.Among the self-cultivating farmers, those who own [-] to [-] mu are considered rich, those who own [-] to [-] mu are relatively rich, those who own [-] to [-] mu are average, and those who own less than [-] mu are poor.Under Wang Xiaolie's rule, the average farmer's land is based on [-] mu of land, which is based on this.However, in addition to [-] mu of land, Wang Xiaolie was also allocated mulberry fields and vegetable fields of [-] mu per household, and most of the self-cultivating farmers lived fairly comfortably.

Over the past three years, Wang Xiaolie has persisted in cracking down on local tycoons, with a large decrease in customers and a large increase in self-employed farmers.Because although the proportion of high-end households is small, most of the customers work for them.Crack down on the upper-class households, and many customers have become self-employed farmers.

The Song Dynasty did not establish a land system and did not suppress mergers, which does not mean that the land concentration in the Song Dynasty was severe.Due to various conditions, the concentration of land in the Song Dynasty was far less serious than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties.Coupled with the fact that people at the bottom are not restricted from migrating, the life of the people at the bottom is relatively better.Starting from not establishing the land system and not suppressing mergers, it is concluded that the land mergers in the Song Dynasty were serious and the contradictions in rural land were sharp, so it is not realistic to seek the truth.

Wang Xiaolie said to Wang Ruohai: "This time Li Zhong was wiped out, besides the soldiers, there were nearly 3 civilians who were coerced by him. If they can survive with Li Zhong, these [-] people will not be old, weak, sick or disabled. If it is properly arranged, it is equivalent to increasing the number of people in several counties.”

Wang Ruohai said: "Arranging these people costs money. What Jie Shuai said is right, but spending money is like water. How difficult—"

Wang Xiaolie said with a smile: "In the past three years, although we have always been short of money, we have not delayed the work. The quality of Xiangyang Yin's meeting is excellent, and now it is spread all over the world. This is a huge income. The money cannot be saved. Once it’s down, it should be spent in time.”

Wang Ruohai said: "The meeting is good now, who knows what will happen in the future? When Cai Jing was in power, he changed the money law and collected a lot of money for the court. But after a few years, the people suffered, and the court could no longer collect money. .”

Wang Xiaolie said: "Consulting, never forgetting the past, and guiding the future, this sentence is good. However, specific issues need to be analyzed in detail, and previous experience cannot be copied. As long as we know how the meeting came about, there will be Whatever it is, be careful and you will be able to do it.”

The strength of Wang Xiaolie's meeting is not due to the exquisite printing, but because of the bank, and more importantly, the rapid economic development.As the economy develops and business prospers, more clubs are needed.Controlling the printing scale of the meeting, not only did it not depreciate in the past two years, but the price also dropped.After all, if the government wants to collect more money, it still depends on economic development.

But with clubs and banks, economic development will have a magnifying effect.By charging an extra thousand guan in taxes, Wang Xiaolie can issue thousands of guan guanzi.Wang Ruohai and others always thought that the meeting was a debt issue, and they wanted to pay off the debt as soon as possible.In fact, why bother?That debt is just a number, and the government controls the size of the issue.As long as the economy continues to develop, there will be more and more meetings in India.

It is with the support of Huizi, coupled with the expansion of the economic scale and the increase of tax sources, Xiangyang's finances have become more abundant this year.In addition to government and military expenditures, Wang Xiaolie had enough energy to spend money on government affairs.Even if the cost is high and the payment is slow, Xiangyang now dares to invest.The government-run field affairs, coupled with the expanded industrial and commercial tax, have a solid financial source.

In the economy, there must be both government-run and private-run companies. The debate on ownership is a product of ideology. Who does Wang Xiaolie need to argue with?Those with large investment, large scale, and some slow returns, of course, must be invested by the government.Including some industries with mature and stable technologies and stable profits, officials can boldly enter.For some projects with high risks and fast progress, the government can support private operations.

The government-run economy not only provides the government with income other than taxation, ensures social stability, and allows the government to directly manage the economy, it also has a role in narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

For industries with stable profits, such as house rent, land rent, and roads and bridges, the government will of course take the lead.It is possible to reduce taxes to reduce the burden on the people, or to prevent these wealth from flowing into private hands, creating a large number of landlords and rentiers.And a large number of industries related to people's livelihood can be controlled by the government.The more money the government makes, the less tax it collects.Of course, if something goes wrong with the government, no one can save it.

When they arrived at Tutai Station, they set up camp, and Wang Xiaolie, Li Yanxian and Wang Ruohai had dinner together.

Dinner is a Song Dynasty system, especially in the army.There are regulations on how often several important generals should eat together.Failure to attend the banquet without reason will be punished.This system is designed to familiarize the generals and exchange information at the same time.

Had a glass of wine.Wang Xiaolie said: "There is no major event on the way back to Xiangyang this time. We can't be idle all day. How about we choose the most common city in the army and we will live there for a few days. Eat and live with the soldiers and listen to them. How to say, what to think."

Li Yanxian said: "That's fine. When I was in Shanzhou, I ate and lived with the soldiers, regardless of each other. Now everything has a system, and the generals and soldiers are different. I am not used to it."

Wang Ruohai couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "Of course, there are few things to go back to the teacher, and there are still many things we need to make up our minds. We are gone, what should we do if there is an emergency in the army? The so-called dragons have no leader, and troubles are easy to happen."

Wang Xiaolie said: "It's okay, we have three people in shifts, and one person is on duty every day. If there is a big event, it won't take much time to report it on a flying horse. The general can't be completely separated from the soldiers, and he doesn't know what's going on. If possible , you should live among the soldiers and understand them. Only in this way can you be clear when managing and not be deceived by the subordinates."

(End of this chapter)